Visual Basic Developer's Library

Hone Your Visual Basic Skills and Put Them to Work Where They Really Count

This boxed set of Visual Basic Developer's Guides offers you a terrific value-and an unprecedented opportunity. As you've progressed as a VB developer, you've probably had trouble finding advanced coverage of the specific topics you want to master. But now you've found it: four books designed especially to help you move into key areas where Visual Basic is emerging as the development tool of choice.

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Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ADO
Offering complete, up-to-date coverage of ADO 2.5, this book helps you develop and implement a universal data access strategy in enterprise-scale database applications. It also helps you extend this strategy to the Web.

• Work With Multidimensional Data Using ADOMD
  
• Put ADO to Work on the Web Using DHTML and RDS
  

Mike Gunderloy, an MCSE, MCSD, and MCT, is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, where he specializes in Visual Basic and SQL Server. He is the author of SQL Server 7 In Record Time and has contributed to several editions of the best-selling Access Developer's Handbook.

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Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ASP and IIS
Focusing on ASP, IIS, and Visual Basic's WebClasses technology, this book teaches techniques that make VB an ideal tool for developing the server-side apps that power Web portals, e-commerce projects, and other complex, high-traffic sites.

• Solve Caching and State-Maintenance Problems
  
• In-Depth Coverage of WebClasses
  

A. Russell Jones, Ph.D, is Vice President of InterCom Training, Inc., a company that specializes in Web-based human resources applications and training programs. He is a regular contributor to Visual Basic Programmer's Journal.

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Visual Basic Developer's Guide to COM and COM+
This book offers complete coverage of Visual Basic's support for COM components and COM+ transactions, showing you ways that you can dramatically improve the functionality and performance of your distributed applications.

• Develop and Access Your Own COM Objects
  
• Get a Head Start on Windows 2000 Programming
  

Wayne Freeze is a full-time computer book author and computer technology consultant. He has more than twenty years of experience with computers and was formerly the Technical Support Manager for the University of Maryland. He wrote Sybex's Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6.

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Visual Basic Developer's Guide to the Win32 API
For many developers, Visual Basic is all about Windows programming. But just how well do you tap the Windows API? This book helps you refine your techniques so your applications are as powerful and efficient as possible.

• Develop Custom VB Components That Draw on Windows Functionality
  
• Solve Tough Registry Problems
  

Steve Brown has sixteen years of experience developing custom network, multimedia, and business software, and is president and owner of MYLE Software and Consulting. He wrote Sybex's Visual Basic 6 In Record Time.

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Bonus CD with Sample Code
The bonus CD included with this box set includes all the sample code from each book, plus a fully functional evaluation version of SQL Server 7.